He had not gone a hundred paces, however, when he returned and said: "I must say, senor, your worship said quite right, that in order to be able to swear without a weight on my conscience that I had seen you do mad things, it would be well for me to see if it were only one; though in your worship's remaining here I have seen a very great one."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Lady Bertram seemed quite resigned to waiting.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The fit of weeping gradually subsided, and he sat quiet, recovering the regularity of his breathing.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

After hearing it, he spake to me in an obliging manner—asked several questions relative to the teachers—said he would think of the subject—and bade me come again.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But now you were sore disordered; how cometh it you have so quickly recovered that you do such things?
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

All this I can easily believe, for he seemed quite reluctant to send me away, at all.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

She tripped away, and presently returned with a fresh trayful; and Toad, pitching into the toast with avidity, his spirits quite restored to their usual level, told her about the boat-house, and the fish-pond, and the old walled kitchen-garden; and about the pig-styes and the stables, and the pigeon-house and the hen-house; and about the dairy, and the wash-house, Page 199 [Pg 199] and the china-cupboards, and the linen-presses (she liked that bit especially); and about the banqueting-hall, and the fun they had there when the other animals were gathered round the table and Toad was at his best, singing songs, telling stories, carrying on generally.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

“I must request thee, Thomas, not to use such language,” says Aunt Dorcas, as she quietly rearranged the bed.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Giving pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning the capture of mice, little birds, and insects.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

How Varro, by removing all the differences which do not form sects, but are merely secondary questions, reaches three definitions of the chief good, of which we must choose one.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Kitty Conover was going to have some queer recollections to tell her grandchildren, providing she had any.
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

Moved with pity at the sight of the young man wounded, and melted to tears at hearing the cause, she quickly recalled to remembrance the knowledge she had acquired in India, where the virtues of plants and the art of healing formed part of the education even of princesses.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

At length their impatient dancing was over, and they stood quiet, resigned to the will of the incomprehensible beings who controlled them.
— from The Invader: A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods

But I had like to have forgot to tell thee, that we have been not a little alarmed, by some inquiries that have been made after me and my beloved by a man of good appearance; who yesterday procured a tradesman in the neighbourhood to send for Dorcas: of whom he asked several questions relating to us; particularly (as we boarded and lodged in one house) whether we were married?
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

some of your Scotch readers "learned in the law" would obligingly answer the subjoined Queries, referring to some decisions.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Eating as they move, and increasing in size quite rapidly, they soon make large cavities in the pollen mass.
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

The work of the Norman builders, found chiefly in the interior, survives in the exterior aspect rather in the "sturdy" quality remaining through the subsequen
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher